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Eels | Elements - with Janet Sutherland

January 27, 2022 • Janet Sutherland, Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny • Season 2 • Episode 6

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Welcome home! Now slip off your raincoat and settle down in the flickering firelight.

Listening to Janet Sutherland will suggest summer snakes hissing in the hay, as you explore the rural upbringing that has shaped the quietly-magnificent world of her four Shearsman Books collections: Burning the Heartwood, Hangman’s Acre, Bone Monkey and Home Farm.

Meanwhile, your pals Robin and Peter begin 2022 eyeing a patriarchal statue in a beautiful poem by Eavan Boland from her New Collected Poems from Carcanet . And devouring C+nto and othered poems by Joelle Taylor to find it an elegiac, barnstorming celebration - and a just winner of the T.S. Eliot prize too.

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